Category: Platinum

When I first learned about the Endress+Hauser EcoVadis reports, they got silver. I gave them platinum for their transparency.

In 2018 they got gold. Congratulations. And platinum again.

I am a bit unfair here, because many other companies probably deserve platinum too. But now I work for 100% of my time as engineer again. I don’t deal too much with CSR issues anymore. That’s why this blog keeps hibernating. Sorry.

There is a credibility issue with EcoVadis awards. However, the good news is that organizations assessed by ecovadis can make their award credible just by disclosing their EcoVadis Premium Report to the public. Then everybody knows for sure that also the employees of that company can scrutinize that CSR report.

If they hide their EcoVadis Premium Report from their own employees, you can’t really count on “Gold” ratings and “Silver” ratings given to organizations assessed by EcoVadis for their CSR management. But companies that disclose such an CSR report at least to the own employees, deserve credit. They, and of course those who publish the report in the internet, deserve a Platinum CSR Award.

The employees of these platinum winners then can compare the reported CSR performance of their employer with the real CSR performance experienced by the employees. Seemingly, only very few companies ranked by EcoVadis can afford such an openess.

Companies that prove their credibility by openly publishing their report in the internet(!) of course have a top-notch attitude towards CSR – even if they have no “Gold” award. A company with a “Silver” award and disclosed Premium Reports is much more credible that a “Gold” awarded company that hides the Premium Report.

In the listing below, entries are rendered in boldface typesetting for those companies who publish their EcoVadis premium report in the internet.

The companies mentioned above are credible. They don’t hide their EcoVadis Premium report. But some companies seem to be afraid that providing their own employees with the Premium Report would reveal to the employees what their employer reported to EcoVadis. If a company assessed by EcoVadis hides the Report from the employees, there may be something wrong with what that company had reported to EcoVadis. Then a “Gold” award has no value.